Wow..neat. This is better than not offering the flight at all. Now I wish DL would bring back EDI to ATL with the 757 or better yet come on DL lets do ATL-GLA with a 763ER!!! Don't make us go to Scotland via JFK! (Argh).

It's nice that people can look out the window on this ATL-SNN flight and point to Logan Airport and its...nice...underutilized...white-elephant...Delta...terminal...which...should...have...its...own...nonstop...to...Shannon.

Or, put another way, the folks at Massport will be able to look up as this flight contrails overhead.

I presume this runs in parallel with the 757 to JFK and then the two 763ERs from DUB to JFK and ATL? Great to see the extra presence with nonstop services.

I am actually looking forward to my first Delta flight on Thursday morning... the DL165 from DUB to JFK. Have heard plenty of good things about DL across the pond lately. Not really looking forward to the Comair flight to PWM though!

As for the 752s being introduced into transatlantic service from ATL and CVG, my guess is that some of that flying was originally intended for JFK (e.g, JFK-CMN) but because of the congestion issue at JFK, DL has had to postpone/cut down on some of the planned 752 flying out of JFK and only concentrate on the 'priority' ones

Will the JFKSNNJFK be with an all economy service aircraft while the ATLSNNATL will be two cabin service? Is this because DL hasn't fitted out all the B757s the same way? If so, do they intend to do so?

Quoting ChrisNH (Reply 5):It's nice that people can look out the window on this ATL-SNN flight and point to Logan Airport and its...nice...underutilized...white-elephant...Delta...terminal...which...should...have...its...own...nonstop...to...Shannon.

Or, put another way, the folks at Massport will be able to look up as this flight contrails overhead.

I really believe that if Delta wanted customs in Terminal A it couldlean on Massport and US Customs and it woild have it. It is not as simple as Massport saying no.

Quoting Styles9002 (Reply 11):Will the JFKSNNJFK be with an all economy service aircraft while the ATLSNNATL will be two cabin service? Is this because DL hasn't fitted out all the B757s the same way? If so, do they intend to do so?

JFK-SNN will be sold as two class service once the aircraft has been modified with B/E seats and AVOD in both classes.

Quoting ChrisNH (Reply 5):It's nice that people can look out the window on this ATL-SNN flight and point to Logan Airport and its...nice...underutilized...white-elephant...Delta...terminal...which...should...have...its...own...nonstop...to...Shannon.

Or, put another way, the folks at Massport will be able to look up as this flight contrails overhead.

Chris,
Delta could begin SNN-BOS tomorrow if the wanted into terminal A. SNN has pre-clearence to the US. No need to go to Terminal E. It appears that it is DL's decision not to begin the service.

Shannon is also scheduled to get US customs clearance so any US bound flight can arrived both Imigration and customes cleared. Will be great for those connecting as there will be no need to reclaim bags

Quoting Bobnwa (Reply 18):Delta could begin SNN-BOS tomorrow if the wanted into terminal A. SNN has pre-clearence to the US. No need to go to Terminal E. It appears that it is DL's decision not to begin the service.

Thanks...that is true between Boston and Shannon. But the larger issue is the collapse of plans Delta originally had for several transatlantic routes from Boston...not just Ireland. And while Delta would have been able to field a Shannon route out of their own terminal, they wouldn't have been able to do so on other European routes. And that's where the whole Delta-Massport snafu came into play (relative to Massport's insistence that international flights launch from their Terminal E rather than Delta's Terminal A).

This is about Atlanta, not Boston, so I'll stop here. But the irony didn't escape me that Delta has pretty much frozen its Boston operations in place while expanding elsewhere.

Quoting ChrisNH (Reply 5):It's nice that people can look out the window on this ATL-SNN flight and point to Logan Airport and its...nice...underutilized...white-elephant...Delta...terminal...which...should...have...its...own...nonstop...to...Shannon.

As a side, how routes are now officially scheduled with the 757? Providing I counted wrong, it should now be 12 flights,ATL-EDI*/SNN, CVG-AMS, JFK-AGP*/BRU/CDG/FRA/LYS*/MAN/ORY*/SNN. And are those 4 routes marked with a star the only non-daily routes, and would the timings allow DL to use only 3 757s to operate those 4 flights?

25 ScottishLaddie
: ATL-EDI is 3x weekly in June rising to daily for the rest of summer, currently stops at the end of September though. You haven't mentioned JFK-EDI th

26 Delta4eva
: I believe SLC-OGG is scheduled for a 757 next summer. Will this be the ex-TWA or the ex-ATA birds?

27 EI321
: Great! My fav plane returns!! Will it be all coach or is there business class?

28 Panamair
: ATL-DUB will have Business on the 764ER. Actually, there won't be any all-coach 764s plying the Atlantic next year. The routes flown last summer with

29 DAL767400ER
: Should feature BizE by next summer, IIRC, the majority, if not all, of the 764s headed for transatlantic flights are already being re-fitted with a B

30 HeeBeeGB
: LGW-JFK to be downgraded to a 752 for s08? Once or double daily?

31 Panamair
: LGW-JFK will go 752 as soon as LHR-JFK starts at the end of March 2008. At that time, DL will be operating 2x daily JFK-LHR (763ER), and 1x daily JFK

32 Delta4eva
: LGW-JFK will be downgraded to once daily 752 next summer, due to 2x LHR-JFK.

33 Flynavy
: The Hawaii operation will be staffed with all the ex-TZ birds. There are talks about fitting these birds with the same AVOD system being deployed thr

34 DAL767400ER
: Guess I forgot about JFK-LGW being downgraded to a 757 as well. So, a total of 13 757s assigned, and 4 more that are not yet assigned. Hmm, let the g